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Days after opening, Maryland medical marijuana dispensaries sell out of product

Bart Schaneman

The celebration at most of Marylands medical marijuana dispensaries didnt last long.
After a four-year-plus wait, medical cannabis sales at a handful of the states 10 fully licensed dispensaries began Friday to patients who waited in line for hours.
But dispensary owners didnt receive as much product as hoped and were forced to limit customers to smaller quantities than theyre legally allowed to buy.
Store shelves were nearly empty within days, leaving shop owners waiting on additional supply to start selling again. The flower supply went first, but some stores still had....

The recreational marijuana industry had a big year in 2016, when voters in four states California, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada approved sales of adult-use cannabis.
But one year later, what the voters approved and the reality of whats happening look vastly different.
As has happened throughout the industrys development, each state has written its own rules and regulations to begin rec sales.
Some states, such as Nevada, have given preference to existing medical marijuana businesses to kick off early sales.
Others, like Maine, have failed to pass an implementation ....

They may not be mad about reefer, but a growing number of Massachusetts communities are leaving their borders open to commercial marijuana businesses, bucking a wave of bans and moratoriums that followed voter approval of legal recreational pot.
Recent votes in several cities and towns against prohibitions on pot shops have cheered advocates for the nascent cannabis industry who say it could signal that communities around the state are slowly concluding that potential benefits, including a boost in tax revenues and the driving out of illegal dealers, outweigh the drawbacks....

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